QURIOZITY 1.0 - The ISTE General Quiz

PRELIMS

Quizmasters:

Aveek Baruah & Nikhil Agarwal

(In association with ISTE Students’ Chapter, NIT Silchar)

1. Print ad for what?

Axe

2. It is called a roundel. The blue-and-white version evolved from the ‘Rapp Motorenwerke’ company logo (shown alongside), designed by Karl Rapp, combined with the blue and white colors of the flag of Bavaria. It has been portrayed as the movement of an aircraft propeller with the white blades cutting through a blue sky, first seen as such in an advertisement in 1929. It was submitted for registration on the rolls of the Imperial Patent Office, and registered there with no. 221388 on 10 December, 1917.Which iconic image is being talked about?

BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke ) logoIt was formed out of Rapp Motorenwerke aircraft

manufacturing firm in 1918

3. During the British rule, ships were docked at the bank of a river in North-Eastern India. Gradually, a market developed at the bank, which became a major place of economic activity. The bank was covered with stones to help dock ships and vessels, and the market was developed at a place that was fully covered with stones. People started to refer to the place as X, meaning a “bank of stones”. With the passage of time, X became Y (the current name) for linguistic simplification and ultimately the British officials started to use the name Y in their official documents referring to the surrounding area of the market.

Which city Y?

Silchar (from Shiler Chor, meaning ‘bank of stones’)

4. On the 25th anniversary of its independence, what system of mail addressing was introduced on 15 Aug 1972 in India?It uses the concept of dividing the country into 9 zones, including eight regional zones and one functional zone (for the Indian Army). • Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu and

Kashmir, Chandigarh• Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand• Rajasthan, Gujarat, Daman and Diu, Dadra and Nagar

Haveli• Goa, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh• Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana• Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry, Lakshadweep• Odisha, West Bengal, Arunachal

Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Assam

• Bihar, Jharkhand• Army Post office (APO) and Field Post office (FPO)

PIN (Postal Index Number) Code

5. X was invented by Nazis in Germany back in 1941. It was very difficult for the Nazis to import Coca-Cola syrup into Germany during World War II due to trade embargos.  So, the head of Coca-Cola Deutschland, Max Keith, decided to make a new product for the German market.

He used ingredients available already in Germany at the time, including whey and pomace. During a brainstorm on what to name the beverage, Keith said “use your imagination” in German.  Salesman Joe Knipp yelled out “X” And this is how it was born. Today you can find over 100 flavors of X worldwide.

Fanta (from the German ‘Fantasie’ meaning – ‘use

your imagination’)

6. X was roommate and best friends with Christopher Reeve at Juilliard School located in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City.

Christopher Reeves recounts in his autobiography “The first person I met at Juilliard was the other advanced student, a short, stocky, long-haired fellow from Marin County, California, who wore tie-dyed shirts with track suit bottoms and talked a mile a minute,” wrote Reeve. “I’d never seen so much energy contained in one person. He was like an un-tied balloon that had been inflated and immediately released. I watched in awe as he virtually caromed off the walls of the classrooms and hallways. To say that he was ‘on’ would be a major understatement. There was never a moment when he wasn’t doing voices, imitating teachers, and making our faces ache from laughing at his antics…”

X dedicated his Golden Globes’ lifetime achievement award in 2005 to Christopher Reeve.

#RIPRobinWilliams

7. ID the inspiration for this song. Also the band

<Tumne Jo Kaha - Movie: Laawaris>

Barbie Girl – by Aqua

8. The “X” button probably costs the company Y about $110 million a year. When you click on that button you skip all the ads that the company Y makes money on. So why don’t they just take that button off? Focus groups apparently show that people feel more comfortable with the button on there. Worth noting that @Y’s first tweet on twitter was: “I’m 01100110 01100101 01100101 01101100 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01101100 01110101 01100011 01101011 01111001 00001010” which means “X” in binary. Although the button is still there now, revenue losses due to it have been brought down to a fraction due to a new algorithm introduced in Sept. 8, 2010.

Funda.

I’m Feeling Lucky(after the introduction of Google Instant in 2010, the button only serves ornamental purpose on

the site)

9. Connect(exhaustive)

Contd. in next slide

Most expensive players in respective IPL’s

MS DhoniAndrew Flintoff, Kevin Pietersen

Kieron Pollard, Shane BondGautam GambhirRavindra JadejaGlenn Maxwell

Yuvraj singh

10. Though credit for the invention of the first practical X usually goes to Sebastien Lenormand in 1783, Leonardo da Vinci actually conceived the X idea a few hundred years earlier.

Da Vinci made a sketch of the invention with this accompanying description: “If a man have a tent made of linen of which the apertures (openings) have all been stopped up, and it be twelve braccia (about23 feet) across and twelve in depth, he will be able to throw himself down from any great height without suffering any injury.”

Like many of da Vinci’s ideas, the invention was never actually built or tested by Leonardo himself. But, in 2000, daredevil Adrian Nichols constructed a prototype based on da Vinci’s design and tested it. Despite skepticism from experts, da Vinci’s design worked as intended and Nichols even noted that it had a smoother ride than the modern X.

Parachute

11. “I want you to remember, X. In all the years to come. In your most private moments, I want you to remember my hand at your throat. I want you to remember the one man who beat you.”

These lines were read by actor Harry Lenix, at a recent press conference and are an excerpt from a literary work, where Y says this to X. The work is scheduled to be made into a film by 2015.

Id the upcoming movie, or both characters X and Y.

X=ClarkY=Batman

Movie= Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice

12. It is a script derived from Devanagari, used by ministers of Maratha rulers and was one of the scripts used to write the Marathi language. It was developed by Hemadpant (or Hemadri Pandit) during the period 1260–1309 AD. The name most likely derives from the verb "modane" meaning “to break” in Marathi, which lends credence to the fact that it was developed from broken Devanagari characters, and was developed as a faster way of writing Marathi.

What is the name of this script?

Modi

13. In the days of hand typesetting, the type (i.e. individual letters that were cast from special metal alloys for use in printing) were kept in specially designed wooden or metal compartments. There were separate compartments for each of the letters, their different forms and the punctuations .

When printers set font by hand one letter at a time, they placed the compartments holding the most frequent forms of the letters, punctuations and spaces on a lower shelf for convenience.

How is this reflected in modern usage?

Lowercase/Uppercase

14. The ABSTRACT says:“A system for allowing a show wearer to lean forwardly beyond his center of gravity by virtue of wearing a specially designed pair of shoes which will engage with a hitch member movably projectable through a stage surface. The shoes have a specially designed heel slot which can be detachably engaged with the hitch member by simply sliding the show wearer’s foot forward, thereby engaging with the hitch member”

How is this famous patent otherwise known?

Michael Jackson’s anti-gravity shoes

15. It came into existence roughly 1000 years ago during the Song Dynasty in China - the only region of the world at the time where paper was abundant. At this time, many merchants often congregated in city centers and had little time or energy to eat during the evening. Because of the large variation found in Chinese cuisine from different regions, the restaurants could no longer cater to the local palates, giving rise to it.

16. What is the name given to the crew of technicians who accompany music bands on tours, and handle every part of the concert productions except actually performing the music with the musicians.This catch-all term covers �tour managers, production managers, stage managers, front-of-house and monitor engineers, guitar techs, keyboard techs, lighting techs, pyrotechnic techs, security/bodyguards, truck drivers, merchandise crew and caterers, among several others. The �term is famous in India in a different context.  

ROADIES

17. According to University of Maryland:

It travels at 650 miles per second, 3,000 times the speed of sound continuously for 31 hrs. from east to west and carries a payload of 353,430 tons which is four times the weight of the Queen Elizabeth II ocean liner.

What?

Santa’s Sleigh

18.

Red is a chaser, alternately called Macky, Shadow or Blinky.Pink is an ambusher, also known as Micky,Speedy or Pinky.

Cyan is fickle, nicknamed Mucky, Bashful or Inky.Orange is stupid, a trait noticable by his slow movement, and is

affectionately referred to as Mocky, Pokey or Clyde.

They aren't really very helpful when you meet them, nor are they useful in any way, except four times for about 10 seconds.

Collectively they are also called "ghosts","goblins or "octopi". You’ve probably packed in at least a few hours with these guys.

Where?

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19. X, an album by Y, explores abandonment and isolation, symbolised by a _______. The songs create an approximate

storyline of events in the life of the protagonist, Z, whose father was killed during the Second World War. Z is oppressed by his overprotective mother, and tormented at school by tyrannical, abusive teachers. Each of these traumas become ___________.

The protagonist eventually becomes a rock star, his relationships marred by infidelity, drug use, and outbursts of violence. As his marriage crumbles, he finishes ___________,

completing his isolation from human contact. Z’s crisis escalates, culminating in a hallucinatory on-stage performance

where he believes that he is a fascist dictator performing at concerts similar to Neo-Nazi rallies, at which he sets men on fans he considers unworthy. Tormented with guilt, he places himself on trial, his inner judge ordering him to ____________,

opening Z to the outside world.

X and Y.

20. Identify X

X comes from a Late Latin word which meant "farmland", in the sense of someone who is bound to the soil of a villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in Late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. It referred to a person of less than knightly status and so came to mean a person who was not chivalrous. As a result of many unchivalrous acts, such as treachery or rape, this word took on its modern meaning.

VILLAIN (from the word “villa”)

21. What is being talked about?

Many suggestions have been made about the origin of this - one of the commonest being that it derives from the figure 8, representing the Spanish 'piece of eight'. However, it actually comes from a handwritten 'ps', an abbreviation for 'peso' in old Spanish-American books. It first occurred in the 1770s, in manuscript documents of English-Americans who had business dealings with Spanish-Americans, and it starts to appear in print after 1800.

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22.Clepsydra in Greek means to steal water. It is a timepiece in which time is measured by the regulated flow of liquid into (inflow type) or out from (outflow type) a vessel where the amount is then measured. Water clocks, along with sundials, are likely to be the oldest time-measuring instruments. This device has given rise to a famous phrase. Which phrase?

Running out of time.

23. Shankar Rao a Legislator from Andra Pradesh has taken his devotion to X depicting her as 'Telangana Talli’. He said, "I want to build the temple so that people can offer prayers to X every day for ending the dominance of Seemandhra leadership over Telangana. I am donating nine acres of my own land and with my own money I am building her statue. Fill for X

Sonia Gandhi

24.X has its origins in the folklore of North India about a princess with incomparable beauty who was so delicate that she weighed only as much as a flower. This folklore took the shape of a drama. Soon it became so popular that the name became that of the Genre itself.

The word X, comprises of two words which when translated to English means “Nine “ and a “Silver coin weighing four grams”, and thus metaphorically implies that the graceful princess weighs only 36 grams (9x4 grams). Give me the term X.

Nautanki

25. Minimalist poster for which movie?

Barfi.!!

Myosotis ("mouse's ear") is a genus of flowering plants in the family Boraginaceae that are commonly called _________.

In a German legend, God named all the plants when a tiny unnamed one cried out, "_________, O Lord!" God replied, "That shall be your name."

Henry IV adopted the flower as his symbol during his exile in 1398, and retained the symbol upon his return to England the following year. It was often worn by ladies as a sign of faithfulness and enduring love. Freemasons began using the flower in 1926 as a symbol well known in Germany as message not to forget the poor and desperate.

Give me the blank.

26.

Forget me not

27. When the British wanted to purchase land for settling down in Kashmir, they were not allowed to do so by the Maharaja of Kashmir, a tradition which continues till date as Kashmiris rarely sell land to outsiders.

What did the British do when refused?

They started living on houseboats

(This is the story behind the origin of Kashmiri houseboats)

28. What do all these symbols combine to form?

29.A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

- Benjaimain Disraeli

This extremely boring quote is very very popular in India for a reason.Why?

Amitabh Bachchan’s monologue in ‘My Name is Anthony Gonsalves’

30. It has been suggested that X records the attempt by King Charles I to reform the taxes on liquid measures. He was blocked by Parliament, so subsequently ordered that the volume of a ______ (1/2 pint) be reduced, but the tax remained the same. This meant that he still received more tax, despite Parliament's veto.(many pint glasses in the UK still have a line marking the 1/2 pint level with a crown above it) . The reference to ______, ( 1/4 pint) is said to reflect that the ______ dropped in volume as a consequence. 

There is also a local belief that X records events in the village of Kilmersdon in Somerset in 1697. When a local spinster became pregnant, the putative father is said to have died from a rock fall and the woman died in childbirth soon after.

ID X??

Origin of the nursery rhyme ‘JACK AND JILL’